Foxit reader won't launch on Fedora 27

[sof24]

Hello everyone,

I hope I'm asking this question in the correct section of this forum.
So I have Fedora 27 installed on my PC, and I installed Foxit reader. Unfortunately, when opening a pdf document with foxit reader, or when I simply open the application (in the /home/opt/ directory), the document doesn't open, although the process is active on system monitor (taking only 22.5 MiB of memory).
Can you help me? I really need Foxit reader because its commenting features are the best I found.

Thanks a lot

[ocratato]

Try running it from a terminal as it may be sending error messages that might help determine what is wrong.

[sof24]

Try running it from a terminal as it may be sending error messages that might help determine what is wrong.

Thanks for the advice. Indeed I get several error messages

[user@eq2-ir-635 ~]$ FoxitReader&
[2] 10885
[user@eq2-ir-635 ~]$ [TimeStamp]-----main-----begin
svn:  r08f07f8


##################################################
##############Foxit Reader Setup Log##############
################################################## 


[TimeStamp]-----CReader_AppEx::InitInstance()-----begin
[TimeStamp]-----CMainWindow::Init()-----begin
QObject::connect: Use the SLOT or SIGNAL macro to connect CMainWindow::
xdg-mime return the value that is  "FoxitReader.desktop
"
QLayout: Attempting to add QLayout "" to CMainToolbar "", which already has a layout
QLayout: Attempting to add QLayout "" to CMainToolbar "", which already has a layout
QLayout: Attempting to add QLayout "" to CMainToolbar "", which already has a layout
CMainToolbar::AddSecondaryToolBar:  "View"
CMainToolbar::AddSecondaryToolBar:  "Comment"
CMainToolbar::AddSecondaryToolBar:  "Protect"
CMainToolbar::AddSecondaryToolBar:  "Connect"
CMainToolbar::AddSecondaryToolBar:  "Form"
configpath:  "/home/user/.local/share/Foxit Software/Foxit Reader/Configuration/configtoolbar.xml"
[TimeStamp]-----CReader_AppEx::LoadLibrarys()-----begin
QMetaObject::connectSlotsByName: No matching signal for on_DescripEdit_editingFinished()
[TimeStamp]-----CReader_AppEx::LoadLibrarys()-----end-----UsedTime: 26ms 
QMetaObject::connectSlotsByName: No matching signal for on_TabToolButton_click()
[need finish...] CRSA_Module::UpdateUserStampsdata() 

wsPDFPath "/home/user/opt/foxitsoftware/foxitreader/stamps/en-US/Standard Stamps"
wsPDFPath "/home/user/opt/foxitsoftware/foxitreader/stamps/en-US/Sign Here"
wsPDFPath "/home/user/opt/foxitsoftware/foxitreader/stamps/en-US/Dynamic Stamps"
[TimeStamp]-----CReader_AppEx::LoadPlugs()-----begin
"Unknown error" 

"Unknown error" 

"Unknown error" 

"Unknown error" 

CInternetMgr::CInternetMgr();
QSslSocket: cannot resolve CRYPTO_num_locks
QSslSocket: cannot resolve CRYPTO_set_id_callback
QSslSocket: cannot resolve CRYPTO_set_locking_callback
QSslSocket: cannot resolve ERR_free_strings
QSslSocket: cannot resolve sk_new_null
QSslSocket: cannot resolve sk_push
QSslSocket: cannot resolve sk_free
QSslSocket: cannot resolve sk_num
QSslSocket: cannot resolve sk_pop_free
QSslSocket: cannot resolve sk_value
QSslSocket: cannot resolve SSL_library_init
QSslSocket: cannot resolve SSL_load_error_strings
QSslSocket: cannot resolve SSLv23_client_method
QSslSocket: cannot resolve SSLv23_server_method
QSslSocket: cannot resolve X509_STORE_CTX_get_chain
QSslSocket: cannot resolve OPENSSL_add_all_algorithms_noconf
QSslSocket: cannot resolve OPENSSL_add_all_algorithms_conf
QSslSocket: cannot resolve SSLeay
QSslSocket: cannot resolve SSLeay_version
QSslSocket: cannot call unresolved function CRYPTO_num_locks
QSslSocket: cannot call unresolved function CRYPTO_set_id_callback
QSslSocket: cannot call unresolved function CRYPTO_set_locking_callback
QSslSocket: cannot call unresolved function SSL_library_init
QSslSocket: cannot call unresolved function SSLv23_client_method
QSslSocket: cannot call unresolved function sk_num

[ocratato]

Hmmmm, that looks a bit broken.
It seems to have some coding errors, and is failing to find some libraries.

Where did you install it from ?

[sof24]

Hmmmm, that looks a bit broken.
It seems to have some coding errors, and is failing to find some libraries.

Where did you install it from ?

I installed it from the Foxit's official site, by downloading it.
Actually I had another computer with Fedora 25 on it, so the computer support guys here did a transfer of data to my new PC (with Fedora 27).
All seems fine, except for Foxit Reader.
Hence I tried to uninstall and reinstall it, using Foxit's own uninstaller excutable, but that didn't work...

[ocratato]

Did it work when it was on the Fedora 25 computer ?
If so then some libraries or other files were left behind in the transfer.

I would try to do a reinstall from a fresh download.
If it still doesn't work you should probably contact Foxit.

[HaydnH]

Is there a specific requirement to use Foxit rather than the PDF viewers available in the Fedora repos? Evince & muPDF are my favourites.